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Hello i´m currently doing a free online course for Power BI for business inteligence when i encountered the following error while using PostegreSQL and loading data to a table:
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It appears to be a problem with the data in the database. I am not sure that you will be able to fix it or work around it with Power BI. Here are a few references I found.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4867272/invalid-byte-sequence-for-encoding-utf8
It appears to be a problem with the data in the database. I am not sure that you will be able to fix it or work around it with Power BI. Here are a few references I found.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4867272/invalid-byte-sequence-for-encoding-utf8
I managed to solve the problem with your solution. Thanks for the reply.
Hi @VBeaklini ,
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